| In Wildwood Flower, Kathryn Stripling Byer speaks through
the fictional voice of a mountain woman named Alma, who lived
in the Blue Ridge wilderness around the turn of the century.
In narrative and lyric, Byer's poems sing a journey through
solitude, capturing the spirit and the sound of mountain ballads
and of the women who sang them, stitching bits and pieces
of their hardscrabble lives into lasting patterns.
Kathryn Stripling Byer has published four
previous books of poetry, including Catching Light, winner
of the Southeast Booksellers Association Award for Poetry.
Among her other accolades are the Lamont Poetry Selection
for Wildwood Flower, the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize and the
Brockman-Campbell Award for Black Shawl, a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship, and appointment as Poet Laureate
of North Carolina. She lives in Cullowhee, located in the
western mountains of the state.
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